Eye-opening (and closing)

The NAACP is threatening to sue the city of Seattle after a police officer pepper sprayed a teacher who’d just given a speech at a Martin Luther King Jr. rally. Video shows Jesse Hagopian walking and talking on his cellphone, committing no obvious crime, when the officer sprayed him.

They’re out of control; whether it’s due to a complete lack of trust in the citizenry, paranoia about them, or whether it’s just that they’re drunk on power, I don’t know. But it’s sickening, and outrageous. Your excellent post highlights yet another sad example of cops behaving outrageously…